EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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Two Pouches
Edo Period (19th Century)
The first of gold, silver and black embossed leather, with an ivory clasp of two rabbits, back to back, red horn inlaid eyes, the backing plate signed Kaigyoku, a pale and dark wood netsuke of a crouching ox, signed with a kao; and the smaller pouch of armour leather printed in green, leaving white tomoe, a shakudo, gold and silver kanemono as a kneeling bijin doll, its backing plate in the form of a battledore and a string-wrapped ball in silver, shakudo and copper, with a shibuichi ojime inlaid in gold, shakudo and copper, in the form of a bird toy, and an ivory netsuke in the form of a kite, signed Gyoku...
The pouches 56in. (13.5cm.) and 36in. (8.7cm.) wide respectively (2)
Edo Period (19th Century)
The first of gold, silver and black embossed leather, with an ivory clasp of two rabbits, back to back, red horn inlaid eyes, the backing plate signed Kaigyoku, a pale and dark wood netsuke of a crouching ox, signed with a kao; and the smaller pouch of armour leather printed in green, leaving white tomoe, a shakudo, gold and silver kanemono as a kneeling bijin doll, its backing plate in the form of a battledore and a string-wrapped ball in silver, shakudo and copper, with a shibuichi ojime inlaid in gold, shakudo and copper, in the form of a bird toy, and an ivory netsuke in the form of a kite, signed Gyoku...
The pouches 56in. (13.5cm.) and 36in. (8.7cm.) wide respectively (2)